Emily Walker

“Stop being so difficult!' is the soundtrack to our childhoods, the refrain worming its way into our psyches until we silence ourselves before anyone else can, pushing through the unpleasantness until we snap.”
― Marian Schembari, A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

“If what happened in our divorce was vengeance, it was an existential vengeance, not a personal one. It had very little to do with me. And it existed on another plane from our love story.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

“I had internalized the names I was called - sensitive, moody, irritable, difficult - but they never felt accurate to my experience. What I felt was pain.”
― Marian Schembari, A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

“I felt, in my bones, an acceptance of men behaving badly, a value in not calling them out, in protecting a man’s belief in his own importance, and a premium placed on keeping such things private.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden & The Next Thing by Mira Hollis 2 Books Colletion Set